International football is boring - Wenger

International soccer has become boring, according to Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger.

"If you leave national pride aside, you have to accept international games are of no interest at all," Wenger told reporters.

"National football is boring, you have to accept that. For me, there are two reasons, club football has moved forward and national football has gone backwards."

Wenger was responding to comments by Middlesbrough chairman Steve Gibson, who criticised the structure of domestic football and said the likes of Arsenal and Liverpool were not doing enough to help England.

The Arsenal manager said officials needed to do something to halt the slide of international football.

"I think football has moved on and has moved more towards the clubs," said the Frenchman.

"It is more exciting to watch club football now than it is to watch national football, and that's the same for England, France, Argentina, Brazil.

"Games are becoming boring. If you go to England against the Faroe Islands, no one will really be interested apart for their love of the country."

Wenger, whose Arsenal side host Wigan Athletic in the Premier League today, backed his foreign policy at the London club and said it was no hindrance to England.

"When I sign a player, nationality doesn't come into it, it's all about quality," said Wenger.

"If I give you a good wine, first you taste if it's good then you ask where it comes from.

"You have to accept we live in a world that is down to quality. The only thing I can say is that whenever England do not win it is always my fault, even when I am not at the game."

Spain beat England 1-0 in a friendly on Wednesday.